Text Feature Creatures

Meet the Text Feature Creatures!

Teaching the text features is very important in all grades. Many times children will be able to recognize the various features, but don’t really understand how they are helpful to the reader. I have created The Text Feature Creatures to help your students learn the names and purposes of the text features.

You can start with singing the poem "Text Features" to the tune of "On Top of Ole Smokey." (See Below)

​I have included the poems for each text feature creature. You can download these as mini posters (below) to use in your lessons. There is also a mini booklet of these poems along with an illustration of each creature. Have the students cut out each page, stack them on top of one another with the cover of the creatures on top, and the poem (sung to the song On Top of Old Smokey) as the second page. Staple all of the pages together to create a mini booklet. On the back of each page, the students can find examples of each text feature from newspapers and magazines. They cut out each example and glue them on the back of each page. Click here to download the MINI BOOKLET.

With titles and headingsAnd words that stand outAnd photos with captionsTelling what it’s about.

The table of contentsIs like a road mapIt shows where the chaptersAnd that is all that

There are so many featuresThat help us to readSo use all these creaturesThey’re just what you need.

-Beth Knoedelseder

Click on each image to download the mini posters for each Text Feature.

Diagram Duke & Levi LabelDiagram Duke and Levi Label make a great team.Helping you to understand is their biggest dream.Labels stick on diagrams as strong as tape and glue.Diagrams show the parts of things​ That may be new to you.

Gladys GlossaryGladys Glossary is a text feature friend.She defines important wordsLocated near the book's end.

Wordle Birds​The Wordle Birds are helpful to knowThey work as a trio and are able to showThe most important words throughout the whole book. They are Italics, Colored, and Bold, Just take a close look.

Prunella Pictures & Captain CaptionsPrunella Pictures & Captain CaptionsAre best friends forever.Captions explain what's in the picture As a team they work together.

Titus TitleTitus Title rules all of the creaturesHe's one of the mightiest text features.He states the main topic you're about to read.Preview him first, and then proceed.​